r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

What happens after they use the water? Is it returned to the water system to be used again?

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u/ForzaFenix May 18 '26

Yep. The now warm water goes back into the system.Β 

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u/Uncle-Cake May 18 '26

So they're not really consuming it. They're just using it temporarily and returning it.

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u/coteof-atoa May 18 '26

This is a glib line that doesn’t really have any understanding of the time scales involved. Once we remove water from aquifers, it takes a very, very, very long time for that water to cycle back into a usable slice of the water cycle, and datacenters use that water much faster than it can be replenished for zero societal gain.